02c. 1947 ADI want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.Sylvia Plath / quote ↗
03c. 1947 ADMy mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.Sylvia Plath / quote ↗
04c. 1947 ADWe fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'... security to us is in ourselves, and no job, not even money, can give us what we have to develop: faith in our work and hard, hard work, which is Spartan in many ways.Sylvia Plath / quote ↗
05c. 1947 ADMy mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.Sylvia Plath / quote ↗
07c. 1947 ADDying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.Sylvia Plath / quote ↗
08c. 1947 ADI hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join the Labour Club, as I really want to become informed on politics, and it seems to have an excellent program. I am definitely not a Conservative, and the Liberals are too vague and close to the latter.Sylvia Plath / quote ↗
09c. 1947 ADI have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.Sylvia Plath / quote ↗
10c. 1947 ADBut life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.Sylvia Plath / quote ↗
11c. 1947 ADNow and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.Sylvia Plath / quote ↗
12c. 1947 ADI took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.Sylvia Plath / quote ↗
14c. 1947 ADI saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.Sylvia Plath / quote ↗
16c. 1947 ADI have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.Sylvia Plath / quote ↗
18c. 1947 ADWhat a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.Sylvia Plath / quote ↗
